Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Out today in Asia: new & old CTI grooves!

Old & new CTI grooves are coming out today! Besides the CTI All Stars reunion "Montreux Jazz Festival 2009," three compilations selected by the Japanese staff of Wax Poetics magazine are being released today in Asia in a collection titled "Wax Poetics Japan Compiled Series": "Sample & Breaks of CTI Records," "Soulful Vocals of CTI Records" and "Dance Classics of CTI Records."

The CTI Jazz All-Star Band concert filmed live in High Definition at the Montreux Jazz Festival on July 7, 2009, finally hits the stores distributed by King Records in nothing less than 3 formats: CD (CTI KICJ 593 with eight tracks and 65 minutes), DVD (KIBM 253) and Blu-ray (KIXM 49), with bonus material in the 82-minute video formats mixed by Rudy Van Gelder in 5.1 Dolby Digital. The front cover image is by another legend, superphotographer Pete Turner. One of Creed's sons, Blake Taylor, took care of the design, and Marc Myers provided the liner notes.